Insider Brief
The Trump administration is expected to issue an executive order directing U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies to better protect quantum research from foreign espionage.
The pending order would also task the departments of Energy and Defense with building and hosting a quantum computer for scientific research.
The directive reflects growing concern that adversaries could steal sensitive quantum advances or use future quantum computers to break widely used encryption systems.
The Trump administration is expected to order U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies to better protect quantum research from foreign spying, a move that could tie one of the nation’s most important emerging technologies more closely to national security.
